Although Downton Abbey’s sixth and final season has just begun airing in the UK, it won’t hit North American TVs until 2016. If you can’t wait until then to see more of the goings-on upstairs and downstairs at England’s most famous fictional manor, Luke Kempner’s amusing solo show should do the trick.

Originally performed at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2013, this farcical 70-minute tour through the Downton universe uses a ridiculous plot about the Dowager Countess marrying a mysterious younger man to allow Kempner to deliver first-rate impressions of dozens of characters.

Wearing only a tuxedo and with an uninspired backdrop of the abbey’s staircase as a set, the limber, likeable Kempner evokes everyone from Maggie Smith’s Violet and her son Lord Grantham to Carson, Mrs. Patmore and Daisy below stairs.

These aren’t merely vocal impressions. Kempner completely embodies a character’s physicality: the way footman Thomas nervously smooths down one hand, for instance, or the way the Dowager fusses with the ruffles of her sleeves. Butler Carson’s stiff posture is much different than alpha sibling Mary’s.

But despite the fine performance, the silly script soon runs out of petrol. There are a few too many references to reality TV, with Britain’s Got Talent, Master Chef and Dragon’s Den checked off, although Kempner’s impressions of celebrities like Gordon Ramsay are amusing.

By the time Thomas appears on Jeopardy, however, or the crippled Mr. Bates takes on Andy Roddick in a tennis match, you know the show has jumped the shark. A song about how anything can become a musical, although directed with liveliness by Owen Lewis, feels like filler. And the Canadian references and occasional corpsing feel a tad contrived.

Kempner is a big talent, however, whose career deserves to extend beyond this pop culture parody.